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Scientific Workshop 12 May 2022

09:00 - 09:10

Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe - Welcome and introduction

09:10 -09:45

Albert Bräuning, Head of Unit, BfR - Oral uptake of microplastics and its impact on human health - keynote

09:45 - 10:00

Camilla Carteny, Microplastics Technical Manager, Plastics Europe - Brigid project outline

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 10:45

Jens Otte, ICCA - A global industry research initiative: ICCA MARII

10:45 - 11:00

Blanca Serrano, Secretary General, ECETOC - Introduction to the Cefic-LRI MP-human health projects

11:00 - 11:30

Bart Koelmans, Professor, Wageningen University & Research - Microplastics human in silico exposure model

11:30 - 12:00

Elisabeth Pinter, Project Manager, OFI - Introduction to the microplastics@food CORNET project

12:00 - 13:15

Lunch break

13:15 - 13:35

Juliette Legler, Professor, Utrecht University and Dick Vethaak, Professor, Deltares - Introduction to the MOMENTUM project

13:35 - 14:05

Raymond Pieters, Associate Professor, Utrecht Univesrity - Introduction to the EU H2020 POLYRISK project

14:05 - 14:35

Andreja Rajkovic, Professor, University of Ghent - Introduction to the EU H2020 IMPTOX project

14:35 - 14:50

Coffee break

14:50 - 15:20

Meike van der Zande, Researcher WUR and Blanca María Pozuelo Rollón, Researcher ITENEIntroduction to the EU H2020 PlasticsFatE project

15:20 - 15:50

Rachel Hurley, Researcher, NIVA - Introduction to the EU H2020 PAPILLONS project

15:50 - 16:05

Coffee break

16:05 - 17:00

Panel

Albert Bräuning, BfR
Ingeborg Kooter, TNO
Andreja Rajkovic, UGent

17:00 - 17:15

Closing remarks

Michel Cassart, Strategic Council Director, Plastics Europe
Camilla Carteny, Technical Project Manager, Plastics Europe

17:15 - 18:15

Networking cocktail

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